Hello friends! I´ve been threatening to tell you about my visit to London last August. It was a generational trip: my mother, my daughter and me...and we had a great time! My mum and I have been traveling toguether in the past but this year we thought it was time to take the little one with us.

We hit the shops, (three women, remember :) I went to Liberty´s three or four times and only bought a sewing gauge, can you believe it? I met there the lovely Kathryn, whom I met during the MMM 13. I guess I had the camara hanging on my shoulder but I absolutely forgot to take a picture of us. I just loved listening her talking with her lovely accent and we had very little time as the both my daughter and mother were left alone in another shop, Hemley´s and I was worried they´d got lost.

Aaand, I was so very lucky to meet Pauline, from P´s Thrifty Sewing Blog, I was in awe of her vitality! She is such an acomplished seamstress, she made her own wedding dress along with the ones for her maids and little ones, she sews shirts for her husband...I love her blog! Thank you so much for making time for us!

And after all the London-image-bombarding I have to say that, sewing-wise this trip has been very inspiring. You´ll see when I show you, much much later, what I´ve been making for the Marathon Telaria :)

What fabulous photos - looks like a wonderful trip, and I can certainly believe it gave you a lot of sewing inspiration! I'm looking forward to seeing if your inspiration was more along the Liberty's line... or the 80s line!

What a wonderful week, Merche, thanks for sharing! I also went to Liberty when I was there earlier this year, and I only bought a Colette pattern, and hey, I now have one of those pink Liberty shopping bags ;). Next time I will look for Shaukat store, which I understand is not far from V&A. Wonderful pictures, thank you for bringing back memories :)OlgaS

Thanks so much for sharing all these photos. I love the idea of a girls holiday... oh well, it's all boys for me :) Treasure that sewing gauge from Liberty :) I was so jealous to hear that you met Kathryn as I've always thought she would be super to meet. Can't wait to see what you've been sewing.

Looks like you had a wonderful time! And I really admire you for going on holiday with your mother... I wouldn't survive, and neither would she... ;-) I love London, I would love to live there, but I'm afraid my wallet isn't big enough for that...

Hi Merche! I'm only now getting a chance to read sewing blogs again occasionally and it's great to see some photos of your London trip. You did do much! You're so lucky to enjoy a trip with your daughter & mother- it must have been very special. It was lovely to meet you & I'm glad there was hamleys nearby so you could get the time to meet up!